︎@maria_a_ahmed
︎ mariaastudio@outlook.com
APhf Dummy Award, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, 10 June-26 July, 2026
Artist’s page, Artist’s Book Yearbook 2026-7, edited by Sarah Bodman
The Doughnut(W)hole group show featuring Beautiful the Chewed Sounds, curated by Kim Shaw and co-produced by Sarah-Jane Field for the Wrong Biennale, online 2025-2026
Participant, Peckham 24 A Bigger Book Fair, 2024-6
Artist in residence, AARK Finland, Korpo, 2022-6
The Doughnut(W)hole group show featuring Beautiful the Chewed Sounds, Hapax Living Room, London, N 2025
“Worm(h)oles” artist discussion, Hapax Living Room, 2025
Featured artist, Warped Space archive curated by Vladimir Florentin, 2025
AARK 10 Dialog group show, Galleria Aski, Turku, Finland, 2025
De-constructed,
B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, group show curated by the Photographic Exploration Project, 2025
Infinite Index, ABC mail art project Pushing the Envelope - 99g,
National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, 2025
Epistemologies artist’s film screening, Garden of Humanities,hosted by video art festival Turku Art House, Finland, 2025
Participant, Offprint London, Tate Modern, 2024-5
Feature, Philosophy and Photography Lab, 2024
Participant, Inventory Art Book Fair, 2024
Participant, Format Print Market, QUAD Derby, 2024
Pecha Kucha, Ambika P3 gallery, 2023
Participant, artist’s book workshop, Backbone Books, Berlin, 2023
Artist’s talk with Lucy Soutter and Sarah-Jane Field, Photofusion, 2023
Slips and Burns - solo exhibition, Photofusion, curator: Katy Barron, 2023
TRACE Mentorship artist’s development scheme 2022-3
Format 22 Artist’s panel discussion with Ibby Azab, 2022
Format 22 multiplayer exhibition Kipya Ki? (What’s New?) 2022
Curators: Ibrahim Azab (UK) & Trevor Mukholi (Uganda)
Select 21 Artist’s talk with Katy Barron, Photofusion, 2022
Select 21 Photofusion group show, 2022
London Creative Network 2021-2
Photofusion Salon group show, 2021
I Didn’t Lick it, Bruton Correspondence School, 2021
Source Graduate Photography Online, 2020
Artist’s books:
Beautiful the Chewed Sounds, 2025
Infinite Index, 2025
Flusspaper, 2024
In Pursuit of an Apparition Hands can Miss the Object, 2024
Slips & Burns, 2023
Heaven Speed the Chameleon, 2021
Soft Knowledge, 2020
A Place Without Ground, 2020
Awards:
Shortlisted Chose Commune Dummy Award
Shortlisted Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Shortlisted Belfast Photofestival
Shortlisted FE+ Skinnerboox Book Award
Shortlisted Fiebre Dummy Award
Shortlisted Images Vevey Book Award
Photofusion Select Award
Photofusion Graduate Prize
Texts:
Slips and Burns, Caroline Molloy, Photomonitor
Mixed Memories, David Bate
Heaven Speed the Chameleon, Calum Beaney, C4 Journal
Education:
MA Photography Arts, University of Westminster
BA Hons English, Wadham College, University of Oxford
Teaching:
Mary Ward Centre (2026 -present)
Arts University Bournemouth (2024- present)
Kingston School of Art (2010-2025)